The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFNinety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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